DRY is more about support and maintenance than anything else.
I see a lot of attacks on DRY these days, and it boggles my mind. Maybe it is being conflated with over-engineering/paramterization/architecting. I don't know.
But I do know that having to fix the same bug twice in the same code base is not a good look.
I experimented with cc65 and wrote a simple game that ran on my actual C64 hardware. It was a lot of direct memory access, unrolling loops, and avoiding stack usage. A fun time overall, and it ultimately ran smoothly, but I see do why people who attempt anything serious on a C64 tend to focus on using ASM.
That is correct. I have lived in Tornado Alley for a half century. Serious tornadoes have landed all over my local area over the years, but I have also never even seen so much as a funnel cloud. They can be devastating though, but are also very localized and do not last long. That said, I do take tornado alerts seriously.
I've passed through neighboring regions only a handful of times in my life and rarely failed to see at least a funnel. Spookiest was a funnel at the edge of a dust storm: it dipped up and down like a spring toy and looked almost alive.
I've also witnessed two waterspouts: one large, thankfully at a distance, and another at about a half-mile.
Dust devils are also another thing. I’ve spent tens of hours driving in the southwest and mountain west and have seen several. Years and years living in, and hundreds of hours on long drives through, tornado ally and adjacent still-tornado-heavy areas, and I’ve never seen a tornado.
The thing about learning in general is that it inherently introduces biases. I imagine you could train up a genocidal maniac LLM with the right data sets.
Low code has been a thing in ETL data integration space for a long time. Anecdotally the most consternation I have experienced lately has been supporting buggy low code implementations which seem to becoming worse and not better over the last 20 years or so.
Ernie stating Nixon as its favorite president is not really surprising. This is a common opinion among those in mainland PRC. Nixon and Kissinger are perceived as good guys that helped open up China to the West. When I have asked people in the PRC about Watergate, the common response is that the Watergate break-in was an internal issue for the US to deal with.
And was not an internal US issue? Or what are you expecting the answer to be? Should've be that was an external issue and UN should've been involved in it?
